CHRISTOPHE CLUGSTON: COMBAT JUDO FAKE

Christophe Clugston paints himself as a military spec ops combatives instructor and subject matter expert. Clugston claims to teach the top-secret military combatives techniques of special operations forces thru his Combat Judo and Commando knife training programs. As you read thru his site, Clugston makes a myriad of claims from training the military to training military contractors. He even goes as far to say on his website that; “NO ONE he has trained HAS EVER BEEN KILLED IN H2H regardless of fighting in jungles, urban or the “sand box.”

Clugston has boasted to many of having very high clearances in the government and military. Clugston’s site contains several different military insignias and references to military units from WWII; The Alamo Scouts, Marine Raiders, US Army and US Marines, as well as stock photos taken from various military sources and books to help give the impression that he is a subject matter expert who trains elite military units and contractors. 

When asked about his military back ground or what makes him a “subject matter expert”, Clugston implies that he has had advanced training in the military, even Top Secret training. Clugston has even told folks that he is retired from the Army.  However, Clugston’s actual military record paints a totally different picture.

CLUGSTON'S ACTUAL MILITARY RECORD

Information obtained thru the Freedom of Information Act (pictured below) revealed that Clugston didn’t make it thru the training phase in the Army (AIT). Clugston had started Basic training on Oct 20th 1993. After the completion of Basic training, Clugston went to DLI school for linguistics training in January of 94, he flunked out of a Arabic language course and had to be restarted into another language course, a Tai language course. In the Tai course he spent nearly 12 weeks into a 47-week course before failing again and was subsequently discharged in July of 94 from the Army.   

CLUGSTONS MILITARY RECORD

Christophe’s Clugston actual military record doesn't reflect military combatives supremacy, knowledge or experience. He could nt make thru his training phase in the army and washout after only 23 weeks into his AIT.  Clugston couldn’t even meet the minimum requirements needed to make it thru training, nor did he receive any special or advanced training in combatives or anything military related beyond basic and AIT. Clugston's stay in the military was so brief that he isn't even considered a veteran in the eyes of the military, the fact that he boasts of a long  or a military career at all is just an out right bold face lie. Generally, Clugston backs up his online schemes with his phony military claims. 

CLUGSTON'S MILITARY RECORD PG. 2

CLUGSTON'S ACTUAL MARTIAL ARTS BACKGROUND

On his websites, Clugston boasts of having several black belts in several different martial arts before the age of twenty and lists several folks he supposedly "trained with" to attempt to back up his claims. Out of the folks he claims he "trained with" it was discovered that this was nothing more than him attending a one time seminar here and there with the different individuals he lists on his websites......nothing remotely close to receiving a black belt in anything.

TRAINING BACK GROUND IN KNIVES  

On Christophe Clugston's sites he lists that he is a Level 1 Instructor in Tactical Kali thru the

Philippine Marine Corps Martial Arts Program.  He  does post a couple pictures on his site to attempt to back up his story mid way down his webpage. http://www.fluentfighting.com/christophes-credentials/

On the trainer's credential page of his site Combat-Judo.com, Clugston claims; "to have taught Philippine Recon Marine Class 20 how to kill with bare hands".  It appears Clugston exaggerated his teaching the Phillipine Marine Corp unit greatly. Acording to the Filipino marine recon NCOs, Clugston did not train ANY class of the Recon marines in anything. Clugston showed up for one seminar and was given a certificate like any other seminar attendee would get for attending.  The NCO and staff also remembered that Clugston was claiming to be retired from the Army at the time.

COMBAT JUDO CLAIMS

Now that we have shed some light on his combatives claims what about his judo/combat judo claims. Not only doesn’t Clugston have any military experience but he isn’t a judoka either. Not a certified coach or trainer and no certification or rank in judo. Clugston doesn't appear to have completed any real training or certifications in any system he claims that he knows. This isn't surprising seeing that he couldn't cut it in the Army. But what do yoy expect from a guy who claims to know ancient fighting systems of the Vikings and even roman Gladiators.....all the training of course was apparently top secret.  

JEET KUNE DO/COMBAT JKD

Clugston also claims to be the foremost authority in something called Combat JKD, a system started by Mike Sanlin, a former Jeet Kune Do practitioner.  After speaking briefly with the few that actually remember Clugston being around training under Sanlin, they all only remember him being around briefly before basically quitting.  According to Sanlin himself Clugston wasn't around long.

FIGHT RECORD

Clugston boasts of a fight record of over 75 fights and claims to have “obtained various kickboxing titles in North America from Super Middle Weight to Heavy Weight” among other titles and accomplishments.  The only thing verifiable on record appears to be a few boxing matches and only a couple of kick boxing matches under the name of Chris Clugston. Total of which is less than ten with half the fights being lost including both kickboxing matches in which both cases he lost to guys who were beginners, fighting for the first time, nothing anywhere close to championship caliber as Clugston claims.  https://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3045

In 2005 Clugston claimed he wanted to fight in the UFC but needed some grappling experience, of which he had none. He sought out some training with a judo/sambo/juijitsu instructor, however, he was told that he was just too far behind the curve to catch up the other fighters. Apparently Clugston didn't have any real talent. Clugston actual verifiable experience is nothing like he claims on his sites and certainly not indicative of championship level material that he says he is.  https://www.mixedmartialarts.com/forums/UnderGround/is-Comhrac-Bas-fighting-style-real:567709?fbclid=IwAR3aS3sKB8KdaMxGYox0iCnMF_kXm-zaStOPTQYvccBoszbko-fgO67CXIE

WWII COMMANDO TRAINING COURSES

Christophe Clugston, runs several ads on his various sites as well as several videos on youtube offering instruction in military style combatives programs.

http://combat-judo.com/

http://www.fluentfighting.com/

http://www.2counterviolence.com/

Clugston also indicates on the webpage of his sites that the “candidates/attendees can fail at any part of the training and be removed from training.” He also very clearly states; "there will be no refunds and that no roll back or restarts will be given.” 

Looking at Clugston’s actual military background compared to what he expects from those who take his courses there appears to be a gapping double standard. Christophe Clugston’s military records revealed that he couldn’t meet the MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS needed to complete the Army’s ENTRY LEVEL training but Clugston was given another opportunity. It is ironic that he doesn’t give people the same chances that he had despite failing at his second attempt.